Antisemitic Organizations & Individuals

In January 2025, Tajiran was apprehended after issuing threats to a Jewish funeral home, claiming he wanted to “behead” and “bury” Jews. He was arrested on charges of terrorist activity.

An activist organization based in New York City, in January 2025 the Palestine Solidarity Working Group, along with Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) and NYC Resist with Gaza, claimed responsibility for vandalizing Columbia University’s Henry R. Kravis Hall. Activists spraypainted pro-Hamas slogans and cemented the building’s sewage system, protesting the university’s expansion projects in Harlem and its association with the Apartheid Global Center in Tel Aviv. 

Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is a student-led organization at Columbia University advocating for the institution to divest from companies associated with Israel. According to their Instagram account, CUAD is a “Coalition of 100+ Columbia University student groups who see Palestine as the vanguard for collective liberation” and claims to be a “continuation of the Vietnam anti-war movement and the movement to divest from apartheid South Africa.” On September 16, 2024, CUAD shared a post by the Unity of Fields Instagram account calling for the mass evasion of public transportation fares and labeling police, “Zionists,” and “surveillance infrastructure” as targets for violence. The post stated: “Fares are free. Don’t pay. Join us in mass fare evasion. Take our city back from the pigs. Let repression breed more resistance. All zionist, police & surveillance infrastructure are legitimate targets.” This post and CUAD’s promotion of it contributed to a large anti-police riot in New York City demanding taxpayer-funded public transportation. The Unity of Fields account that posted the original call for violence was later disabled by Meta, as confirmed by a post from an alt-account on September 25, 2024. In January 2025, CUAD, alongside the Palestine Solidarity Working Group and NYC Resists with Gaza, vandalized Henry R. Kravis Hall. Activists spraypainted pro-Hamas slogans and cemented the building’s sewage system, protesting the university’s expansion projects in Harlem and its association with the Apartheid Global Center in Tel Aviv. On February 27, 2025, Barnard College dean Leslie Grinage was held captive by pro-Hamas members of CUAD and Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. Reports claim that two university employees were physically assaulted, the campus was vandalized, and classes were canceled. Protesters were calling for the reinstatement of two pro-Hamas classmates who were expelled for interrupting a History of Modern Israel class with antisemitic propaganda. Grinage was eventually released and the protest moved from the university to the streets of New York City. 

A New York-based activist group supporting Palestinian causes, in January 2025, NYC Resist with Gaza collaborated with the Palestine Solidarity Working Group and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) to vandalize Columbia University’s Henry R. Kravis Hall. Activists spraypainted pro-Hamas slogans and cemented the building’s sewage system, protesting the university’s expansion projects in Harlem and its association with the Apartheid Global Center in Tel Aviv. On January 28, 2025, the group celebrated the vandalism of Jewish-owned restaurant Miriam’s in Brooklyn, New York in an Instagram post that stated, “Not only was this act condemned by pig mayor Erikkk Adams and Zionist senator Chuckkk Schumer, but ‘pro-Palestine’ mayoral hopeful Zohran Kwame Mamdani decided to join in on the disavowal. Zohran was infamously arrested outside of Schumer’s house at a protest, but here it looks like they agree that fighting genocide supporters outside of ‘permitted’ protests is too far.” 

A Senior Student Success Advisor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in December 2024 Flores reportedly posted an advertisement seeking to sublet a room in her apartment that noted “no Zionists” should apply. Massive backlash ensued for the perceived antisemitism of this provision.

A prominent local grassroots activist group, the Colorado Palestine Coalition is a collection of left-wing organizations joined together in support of Hamas. The Coalition has a history of shutting down the streets of Denver and obstructing traffic while yelling incendiary phrases like “down with occupation!” in reference to Israel and “free Palestine!”

A consortium of left-wing advocacy groups, Ready to Escalate Network exists to organize pro-Hamas encampment protests and move them beyond college campuses. Their website is “a clearing house for reports and reflections from encampments and beyond, a place to share resources produced by and for the unfolding movement.” They also state their goal is use the pro-Palestine movement as a tool to “paralyze the economy” of America. Ready to escalate asserts that there is no such thing as a “safe protest” and that the “genocide unfolding in occupied Palestine must be stopped by any means necessary.”

A grassroots activist group favoring pro-Palestinian causes, Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is accused of sympathizing with Hamas terrorists and being a primary organizer of pro-Hamas protests in New York City following the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel that left more than 1,200 civilians dead. The group has allegedly promoted calls for violence against Israel and its citizens. Another stated goal of WOL is to “globalize the intifada.” In April 2024 Within Our Lifetime posted a video of one of their members, Harvard student Abdullah Akl, chanting “Strike, strike, Tel Aviv. Abu Obeida, our beloved.” They took down the video soon afterward.

Known as a voice in discussions around Islam in the United States, the Yaqeen Institute is a Texas-based think tank specializing in religious apologism for the Muslim faith. Immediately following the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel which left more than 1,200 civilians dead, Yaqeen Institute president Omar Suleiman wrote an article in which he defended Hamas’s behavior as a consequence of “the current escalation of Israeli aggression and Palestinian resistance.” The Research Director of Islam and Society at the Yaqeen Institute, Imam Tom Facchine, proclaimed unequivocal support for the terror attacks, stating “We are with the Palestinian resistance 100%, no ifs, no ands, no buts, no equivocations, no apologies, no condemnations.”

A special interest organization purportedly founded to promote Islamic jurisprudence, the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) claims to “lead the Muslim community into a better understanding of the practice of the religion of Islam in Western societies.” The organization refuses to condemn Hamas. In 2009, AMJA issued a fatwa which urged the reader not to criticize Hamas, saying it “is not the time to discuss the errors of Hamas or any other Palestinian groups.” AMJA member Waleed Basyouni taught that Hamas is not a terrorist group.